The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 ...

John Geoffrey Fairley was one of a small group of photographers tasked with documenting the conflict for Australian audiences ...

The Vietnam War was ending ... The Marines peeled off helmets and flak jackets to lighten the load, piled in the choppers and flew away. Advertising “It all came down on us,” Potratz said.

where soldiers were left without flak jackets or helmets. The lack of protection underscored the dangers faced by all, regardless of their role on the front lines. The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 ...

The company, consisting of four platoons of infantry, was poised to engage in Operation Abilene, a strategic move in the escalating Vietnam war ... fatigues and a flak jacket and carrying two ...

The impact of one heroic flight would take decades to reconcile Brian Mockenhaupt; Photographs by Dan Winters The war couldn’t ... and that their flak jackets and steel helmets would protect ...

The Vietnam War produced some of the most unforgettable films of the late 1970s and 1980s, as top Hollywood filmmakers like ...

The Vietnam war cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and for the half-century since it ended, filmmakers have reckoned with its complicated legacy.

The Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago, fundamentally altered our perception of war, particularly its long-term consequences. The Vietnam War — which came closely on the heels of the ...